Species Steatoda bipunctata

Classification · Internet References

'Puffy' Spider ID? - Steatoda bipunctata

Steatoda bipunctata? - Steatoda bipunctata - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Theridiidae (Cobweb Spiders)

Genus Steatoda

Species bipunctata (Steatoda bipunctata)

Internet References

~ www.bugsandweeds.co.uk. Images and information.

~ www.eurospiders.com - Images.

~ http://www.canadianarachnology.org - Images.

~ www.conservation.unibas.ch - (PDF) Evidence for displacement of a North American spider, Steatoda borealis (Hentz), by the European species S. bipunctata.

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 25 May, 2006 - 8:22pm
Additional contributions by Lynette
Last updated 25 October, 2009 - 10:21am

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